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For Industrial
Today, manufacturers around the globe are realizing that sustainability is no longer a choice. Understanding how their operations may impact the environment is now part of every business decision they make. Increasingly, organizations are seeking ways to decarbonization their operations, reduce emissions, conserve water, eliminate waste, and cut energy consumption.
And the bar is being raised higher as customers, shareholders, regulatory agencies, and other government bodies pressure companies to reduce emissions and adopt more sustainable operations to meet ambitious goals and mandates. But achieving sustainability objectives can be hard. It requires manufacturers to connect and analyze data across machines and factories—data that is often fragmented and hidden in operational silos.
Rising energy costs have a direct impact on the bottom line of companies. These costs can account for 15 percent of food and drink manufacturers, 25-30 percent in iron and steel manufacturers, 32.5 percent in the ceramics industry, and 9-30 percent in the paper and pulp industries.1
Rising to the challenge
Climate change further fuels the need for sustainability, driving calamities including floods, fires, diseases, droughts, and ecosystem collapse. These disasters pose significant risks to human health and well-being, especially for our most vulnerable communities. Individuals and organizations are rising to the challenge by understanding the contributors to climate change and working to build solutions to minimize environmental impact.
In response to the impacts caused by climate change and other conservation issues, many of today's leading companies are stepping up to play a central role in helping to build a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world.
As part of our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company, Amazon is committed to building a sustainable business for our employees, customers, and communities. We're driving toward a net-zero carbon future by cofounding The Climate Pledge, which is a commitment to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
As the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, AWS is designing data centers that provide the efficient, resilient service our customers expect while minimizing our environmental footprint—and theirs. We focus on efficiency across all aspects of our infrastructure, from the design of our data centers and hardware, to modeling the performance of our operations for continually enhanced efficiency. Customers can easily leverage this efficiency by switching to the cloud.
Learn more about the steps Amazon is taking to reach zero emissions. Amazon is taking a holistic approach by enabling our operations, supply chain, communities, and customers to play a pivotal role in reaching these ambitious goals.
More than ever, companies are recognizing that having a sustainability strategy is imperative to near- and long-term success. There are numerous factors driving climate change, but there are even more strategies that can be deployed to ensure a company's carbon footprint remains as small as possible.
If done correctly, being a responsible steward for the environment can create a competitive advantage and generate positive public perception for companies. This includes things like increasing efficiency or reducing overall usage of equipment that consumes energy, eliminating waste, and using scale to minimize impact. AWS has several offerings that allow customers to gain a clear understanding of where these opportunities lie, by helping to provide nearreal-time consumption information and operational intelligence.
Customer Story
Carrier and AWS collaborate to keep food fresh
A global leader in AVAC systems, Carrier partnered with AWS to help power digital transformation to improve food sustainability for suppliers, manufacturers, logistics, consumers, and everyone in between. They collaborated to innovate and develop Lynx, a digital platform that unifies the highly fragmented cold chain to reduce food spoilage, support end-to-end visibility, and increase efficiency throughout the various stages of refrigerated storage and transportation.
AWS services for IoTM, machine learning (Amazon SageMaker) and analytics (Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and Amazon QuickSight) were key to designing and building the cold chain solution. The result was a product that boosts efficiency by optimizing distribution routes, tracking ambient temperature along the entire cold chain journey, and ultimately helping to reduce the methane biproduct of decomposing, wasted food.
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The Lynx digital platform, being co-developed by Carrier and AWS, is designed to provide customers greater flexibility, visibility, and intelligence across the cold chain.”
Customer Story
Bayer aims to cut carbon using data from the Carbon Program and AWS
To help Brazilian farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices and reduce carbon emissions in their activities, Bayer created the Carbon Program, which aims to build carbon neutral agriculture practices by measuring and increasing carbon sequestration in the soil.
To centralize and standardize the data received from the different partners involved in the project, Bayer uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) and built a serverless data lake architecture to have the scalability and agility the project needs. As a result, the initial Carbon Program included more than 400 farmers across 144 cities in 15 Brazilian states. The program generated more than 80,000 soil samples.
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AWS helped us to start this data integration and understand what methodology to use to look at soil carbon sequestration.
Vanessa Ginez
Digital Transformation Manager at Bayer
As manufacturers face stricter regulations and sustainability goals, they need the ability to track their product carbon footprint (PCF)—the total greenhouse gas emissions a product generates from extraction to sales. Studies by analyst firm 451 Research found that moving on-premises workloads to AWS can lower your carbon footprint 80–96 percent once AWS is powered with 100 percent renewable energy (targeted for 2025).
Using the Product Carbon Footprint solutions on AWS, you can automate your carbon accounting and improve sustainability efforts. Manufacturers can use easy-to-understand data visualizations to better track carbon emissions, reduce costs of goods sold, lower their PCF, and facilitate increased transparency for regulators and customers
Equipment that's not running at peak performance wastes energy. Using AWS services and AWS Partner solutions can help you discover ways to better understand and reduce WAGES (Water, Air, Gas, Electricity, and Steam) consumption and improve sustainability. Store, access, and analyze loT data in an AWS data lake, and use ML capabilities to analyze and visualize plant floor data to pinpoint areas for improving energy efficiency. Remote asset monitoring on AWS can also help you prevent, detect, and resolve equipment issues and act on opportunities for improved energy efficiency.
With AWS loT TwinMaker, you can build digital twins of your equipment, assets, and systems that simulate how they operate under different conditions. Use real-time data for updates, model different production scenarios, and learn how to operate your machines more efficiently, cost-effectively, and sustainably
Customer Story
Cloud analytics helps Mueller Water Products detect leaks better
Mueller, a leading manufacturer of water equipment and services, wanted to tap into the full potential of its data and provide performance insights to its customers. They built a data lake on AWS and then used Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, to increase leak-detection performance. Mueller could give its customers a more accurate view of critical water data, enabling them to manage their infrastructures more efficiently. As a result, they have automated the daily collection of more than 5 GB of data and one customer expects to save $8 million over 5 years.
Digital twin technology helps Coca-Cola Içecek cut energy consumption by 20%
Coca-Cola Içecek (CCI), the world’s sixth largest bottler of Coke products, built a robust digital analytics system for its productionline sanitation process in only two months, improving process efficiency and reducing environmental resource usage. They developed a digital twin and used AWS loT SiteWise to optimize production processes through data-driven monitoring. As a result, CCI has saved 20 percent on energy and 9 percent on water for two process systems annually.
